GIVE YOURSELF SOME PRIVACY: This dense, upright evergreen offers vibrant reddish new growth, black berries, and petite leaves, making it an ideal boxwood replacement. (National Garden Bureau) ...

Once established, conifers provide lush green screening for very little effort. Super easy to look after, they need only ...

You’ve found your perfect backyard, but there’s building going on in the next plot and you don’t want to have to look at it – or have the neighbors overlooking your next backyard party. But a tall ...

Fast-growing evergreens are great for creating natural privacy and giving you year-round color. However, some are invasive and others have a messy growth habit that needs constant attention. Then ...

* What it is: Gardeners often need skinny, upright evergreens for those tight spots in the yard where they’re looking for privacy or definition. Examples are along property lines in small yards, ...

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What can you plant to block out the new neighbors' pink-stucco McMansion? You want something evergreen for a year-round screen, but most tall-growing kinds require full sun to thrive, and how many ...

After being mesmerized by the slow and pretty leaf drop of autumn, we wake up around Thanksgiving day to the reality of the naked garden. The cherry tree that screened the back alley or the trash cans ...

After an extraordinary fall, when plants stayed green halfway into November, we've finally reached winter, when leaves are gone, grass is brown and remnants of garden flowers are black from frost.